Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

From: Carl Fink (carlf_at_fink.to)
Date: 09/30/04

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    On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:01:37PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:

    > > Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I
    > > still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer
    > > URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio
    > > format.
    > >
    > > I started with this:
    > > mplayer -dumpfile foo.wav -dumpstream rtsp://....ra
    > > but foo.wav turned out to be a RealMedia file.
    > >
    > > I've also tried various combinations of -ao and -format options, but the
    > > output file always ends up the same. I'd appreciate it if anyone could
    > > tell me what I'm missing.

    [snip]

    > recently I wanted to timeshift the new HHG realaudio stream. after
    > googling, I found VSOUND.
    > app->VSOUND->/dev/dsp
    > at least for audio, this works.

    Doesn't work with ALSA, though.

    I found this incantation at grimthing.com (which currently appears to
    be down):

    mplayer -ao pcm -aofile capfilename.wav -vo null -vc dummy rtsp://realname.rm

    If you're using a playlist file (e.g. a .ram file) invoke with
    "-playlist URL" or "-playlist path/file" instead of just a bare URL
    or filename at the end of that line.

    I've used this to capture both RealAudio streams (Fresh Air) and the
    audio portion of RealVideo streams (BookTV.org). 

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